Jackson isn’t equating the opening week of the regular season with a game that decided who advances to the Super Bowl, however. At a press conference last week, Jackson said that the loss to the Chiefs motivated the Ravens all offseason but added that getting an immediate chance to face them wasn’t a big deal to him.
“I really don’t care who we play; it really didn’t matter,” Jackson said, via a transcript from the team. “At the end of the day, our goal is to make it to the Super Bowl. We lost to them in the playoffs.